The Harvard Graduate School of Education (GSE), Harvard Business School (HBS), and nine urban school districts announced the Public Education Leadership Project (PELP) on Tuesday (Oct. 21). PELP is a joint venture collaboratively designed to dramatically improve the educational outcomes of these school systems. The districts, representing more than a million students in urban areas across the nation, include Boston, Chicago, Minneapolis, and San Francisco.
A gene produces a protein that evidently protects cancer cells in the same way it shields brain cells from damage caused by diseases like Alzheimer’s and strokes. “The same substance…
According to Beth Simmons, a professor of government at Harvard, governments care what others think of them. They want to be admired and can be publicly embarrassed, just like like…
A widely cited estimate is that at current rates of deforestation, orangutans will be extinct in the wild in 20 years. But Assistant Professor of Anthropology Cheryl Knott, who heads…
In the event of divorce – statistically, the reality for nearly half the marriages in America – a prenuptial agreement has the potential to save the divorcing couple anguish, arguments, and thousands of dollars. It may represent an exit agreement far closer to their wishes than the court-ordered divorce. A good prenuptial agreement can even exert a positive force on a healthy marriage.
Oct. 17, 1640 – The Great and General Court grants Harvard the revenues of the Boston-Charlestown ferry, which plies the shortest route between Boston and Charlestown, Cambridge, Watertown, Medford, and…
Brina Sheeman Shackelford, a fifth-year graduate student at the Medical School, died last weekend in a car accident in New Hampshire. Shackelford was admired by those who knew her as a truly bright and compassionate friend and colleague. The Shackelford family would like to honor her commitment to graduate work in the sciences by requesting that donations in Shackelfords memory be made to Graduate Program, Harvard Medical School, Brina Sheeman Shackelford Memorial Fund, 25 Shattuck St., Boston, MA 02115.
K through 12 tutors needed Cambridge School Volunteers Inc. (CSV) – a private, nonprofit organization that recruits, trains, and places volunteers in Cambridge Public Schools – is recruiting people of…
Frosch receives NAE award The National Academy of Engineering (NAE) recently presented senior research fellow at the Kennedy School of Government Robert Frosch with the Arthur M. Bueche Award. Frosch…
The Robert Toigo Foundation, a leading organization supporting the advancement of exceptional minority business degree students and alumni within the finance industry, recently announced the selection of 13 Harvard Business School (HBS) students as Toigo Fellows. The new fellows include Schelton Assoumou, Tchintcia Barros, Eugene Chiu, Jason Davis, Jaimee Fomer, Christopher Johnson, Leroy Kennedy, Kristal OBryant, Edward Pascual, Nicole Sherwood, Alberto Suarez, Seble Tareke, and Jerome Thomas.
Im a spiritual person, a Christian, but Im not what you would call orthodox. Im a preachers kid. My dad was the minister of a small, evangelical church on the south side of Atlanta. I learned how to pray as a kid, but I found that it didnt work for me. What does work for me is using my hands, making things. For me, its a way of being in a meditative state, losing track of time, finding the groove. And when Im making something for someone, its like saying a prayer for them.
Sophomore goalkeeper Ryan Johnson registered a career-high 10 saves on Tuesday afternoon (Oct. 14) to preserve a 3-0 shutout against visiting Holy Cross (1-8-1). With the win, Johnson – ranked second in the Ivy League in the number of goals allowed per game (.84) – earns his third shutout of the season. Still unbeaten at home with a five-game win streak, mens soccer improves to 5-3-3 (0-1-1 Ivy) on the season.
Crimson bounce Big Red, 27-0 Junior quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick completed 12 of 17 passes for two touchdowns and rushed for another to shut out Cornell this past Saturday (Oct. 11)…
Harvards waste recycling rate continued its upward climb last year, reaching a record 36 percent and preserving enough paper fiber to equal 80 acres of forest cut for pulpwood.
At the Office of Career Services (OCS) Career Forum last Friday (Oct. 10), Will Krause 04 expressed pride and relief. Hed made his way halfway around the booths that lined Gordon Track without being lured away from his chosen career of government. Ive managed to avoid the consulting trap so far, he said.
Richard Cozzens 07 has written a love duet in which a man who has gone to the moon to be with his lover realizes that he cannot love her away from the Earth.
Was it to watch Olympic stars, to cheer local ice-skaters, to support the Jimmy Fund of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, or to take a break from Red Sox mania? Whatever spurred people to attend Eliot Houses 34th An Evening with Champions, they were well rewarded, watching phenomenal ice-skaters, such as Olympic gold medalist Oksana Baiul, Olympic pair skaters Tiffany Scott and Philip Dulebohn, and eight-time British champion Steven Cousins.
This fall the Harvard University Art Museums (HUAM) will return with a third year of the successful Sackler Saturdays program. Families with children ages 6 to 11 are invited to explore artworks from ancient cultures and distant lands such as China, Japan, Korea, India, Greece, and Rome. The program, which is free and open to the public, takes place in the Arthur M. Sackler Museum. The first event – A Big Dig: Finding Out About Buried Treasures in the Sackler Museum – will be held Saturday (Oct. 18).
Sen. John Edwards (D-N.C.), fighting to break out of the middle of the crowded pack of Democratic presidential contenders, answered his critics Monday night (Oct. 13) during the first in a series of one-on-one interviews with the candidates at Harvards Kennedy School of Government. The program was televised live from the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum on MSNBCs Hardball With Chris Matthews. Matthews conducted the interview.
Marjorie B. Cohn, acting director of the Harvard University Art Museums (HUAM), recently announced that members of the Christof Engelhorn family have endowed a curatorial internship at the Busch-Reisinger Museum. According to Cohn, Formal internships have been a part of the Art Museums academic mandate for decades and with this endowment the Busch-Reisinger Museum will from now on be a certain and permanent focus for curatorial training.
Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department for the week ending Oct. 11. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.
For her leadership in government and humanitarian causes, the Harvard Foundation will honor Gov. Sila Calderón of Puerto Rico at a reception this Friday (Oct. 17). Calderón will receive the Harvard Foundation Medal at a reception for students and faculty in Leverett House at noon, and will deliver a public address titled Value-Based Democracy: A Puerto Rican Case Study in the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum at 4 p.m.
In July 2000, when the Right Rev. Vashti McKenzie was elected the first female bishop in the 213-year history of the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church, her reaction made national headlines. The stained-glass ceiling has been pierced and broken, she said after the bishops and elders of her church had placed their hands on her head in blessing. And indeed, her election to serve the 18th Episcopal District of the AME Church, which includes the four sub-Saharan African countries of Lesotho, Botswana, Mozambique, and Swaziland, was hailed as a symbol of hope and change for the oldest and one of the largest historically black denominations.
With a title like The Pursuits of Happiness, its no wonder that philosopher and ethicist Sissela Bok packed Science Center C Tuesday night (Oct. 14) for her Lowell Lecture sponsored by the Harvard Extension School: Is there any pursuit more elemental to our existence?
People tested by Harvard Psychology Professor Stephen Kosslyn and his colleagues have found it difficult to hold a simple image in their minds for more than 10 seconds. However, Buddhists…
Three Harvard faculty members are among this years 24 MacArthur Fellows, which the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation announced Sunday (Oct. 5). Each is a recipient of the fellowships $500,000 no strings attached grant.
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